Subject: Has anyone played around with BizTalk Mapper? From: "Michael J. Hudson" <mhudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 13:28:48 -0400 |
I'm not Microsoft affiliated, but I did find a really really cool tool on their site which actually mirrors a tool that I'm currently building for my client... and that is the BizTalk Mapper. Go to: www.microsoft.com/biztalk and download the BizTalk Technology Preview. Inside the XML tools, is a tool called the BizTalk Mapper. Essentially, it allows you to graphically create XML-to-XML XSLT scripts without really having to know XSLT. It's still a little bulky and you have to actually use Microsoft's other XML tools to create specifications for this tool to use to accurately do the mappings. But the functoids graphing thing is such an excellent visual way of wrapping common function mapping from one XML element to another. I still dont think it covers some pretty common XML structure transformation problems, and it doesn't support the ability to map the destination element to a plain literal (though I guess you could use a scripted functiod for it). I was actually building a tool similar to this tool for a client, actually I was just building a prototype. It seems that in both of our implementations, you do need some intermediate XML mapping file that is expressed in XML. I think Microsoft got too complicated with theirs... and they get too proprietary with some of their XML Biztalk standards. They should have just inserted simple mapping tags within a fleshed out version of the destination XML file. I also dont like the fact that you're tied to the MSXSL processor and VB scripts. But oh well... in any case, it is the FIRST truly graphical XML-to-XML XSLT creator I've seen out there. IBM has some things in its alphaworks that come close, but this is the first that really rounds all the ideas out and actually has a pretty cool interface. Check it out. ------------------------------------- Michael J. Hudson Software/Framework Engineer mhudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cell-phone: 703.932.6412 voice-mail: 703.827.0638 ext. 4786 fax: 703.734.0987 Blueprint Technologies "The E-Solution Architect" http://www.blueprinttech.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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